taste-design

An agent skill by google-labs-code, from google-labs-code/stitch-skills. Tags: design, documentation, premium-ui, stitch, strategy.

What it does

Semantic Design System Skill for Google Stitch. Generates agent-friendly DESIGN.md files that enforce premium, anti-generic UI standards — strict typography, calibrated color, asymmetric layouts, perpetual micro-motion, and hardware-accelerated performance.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add google-labs-code/stitch-skills --skill taste-design

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google-labs-code/stitch-skills
cp -r stitch-skills/plugins/stitch-utilities/skills/taste-design ~/.claude/skills/taste-design

Safety box score

Grade A, minimal risk: 7 of 100 risk points, rated 2026-10-20. The grade rates what the skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. How the score works.

This skill is a design-spec generator for Google Stitch: it writes `DESIGN.md` files and encodes a strong set of visual rules. It does not ship executable code or shell scripts, but using StitchMCP can send project context to a remote Google service, and it will create/overwrite design docs in the workspace.

Category levels, from 0 (none) to 3 (high)
Category	Level	Why
Code & shell execution	0 (none)	No shell commands, code evaluation, or native scripts are shipped; the files are plain markdown only.
Network access	1 (low)	The skill is built around `StitchMCP` and references `labs.google.com/stitch`, so prompts/context may be sent to a remote Google service.
Filesystem reach	1 (low)	It uses the `Write` tool and explicitly generates `DESIGN.md`, so it can create or replace files in the project workspace.
Secrets & credentials	0 (none)	There is no instruction to read tokens, keychains, `.env` files, browser sessions, or other credential stores.
Privilege & persistence	0 (none)	No sudo, global installs, services, scheduled tasks, or shell/OS settings are requested.
Instruction hijack surface	0 (none)	The content is prescriptive design guidance, but it does not ask the agent to ignore higher-priority instructions, hide behavior, or follow remote instructions.
Irreversible actions	0 (none)	It produces a design document only; it does not publish, deploy, send messages, or perform other external actions.
Transparency	0 (none)	Both shipped files are readable markdown; there are no binaries, minified assets, or decoded-at-runtime code.

Before installing

Confirm whether `StitchMCP` is allowed to send repository context to Google Stitch.
Check whether an existing `DESIGN.md` should be preserved or replaced.
If you want to validate impact, run it on a scratch branch and inspect the generated markdown before merging.

Rated 2026-10-20 by an automated review of 2 files from the skill's repository.

Source

Repository: google-labs-code/stitch-skills (all skills from this repository)
Path: plugins/stitch-utilities/skills/taste-design/SKILL.md
Branch: main
Collection: stitch-utilities
Updated: 2026-09-19

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